On Line Dating Sites

A brief reference to on-line dating/match up services was in my initial post on this blog. The first time I joined one of them a thought was ambling around in the recesses of what passes for my brain. “What kind of socially bankrupt knot head ends up here, in a ‘place’ like this?” All the while I pictured the other people on there as mumbling geeks, compulsively fingering their favorite Star Wars lapel pin trying to appear as something they were not while they typing in a clever new signature line for their e-mails like “Live long and prosper.” They would have a full ashtray on their desk, a can of Coke long since gone flat and little bunches of cat hair hidden behind the door. Time stamps on their postings would usually be between 1 and 3 in the morning. Their bookshelf would feature a dog-eared paperback compendium of possible names for pets.

Oh, my God….that’s the group I have joined?

Well, I was wrong of course. There are really lovely people out there who apparently, like me, realize the on line matching sites are a great place to meet people and get to know a little bit about them without the subliminal screening based on things like bra size or a tight butt.

Now, here’s the weird part, the question that I just couldn’t get over. Why do so few people at these e-mixers use any semblance of imagination in their profiles at all? If I had a nickel, make that a twenty dollar bill, for every time I have read that a lady likes long walks on the bloody beach and cuddling by a cozy fire I would be on some Caribbean island somewhere drinking a cold Corona and trying to decide whether to bake or grill that fresh grouper filet for dinner.

Not only the narrative but the pictures they post! I saw pictures that would have been rejected for driver’s licenses by the Motor Vehicles department in 49 of the 50 states and the territory of Guam. Is this a test? “If you can overlook the fact that this picture makes me look as if I am the subject of a Central America wanted poster then lifelong true love is on the horizon.”

Put down the rocks and bottles because I’m not talking about beauty here. I just don’t understand how someone can be so oblivious to what kind of visual first impression they make.

More on this another day, if the Spirit moves me…..I’m tired of it now.